28Jun 2016 by clive

The Chilcot Inquiry must tell the truth

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  By Mairead Maguire The long awaited Chilcot report (5 years) on the Invasion of Iraq will finally be released on 6th July, 2016. The Report is to be welcomed and the hope expressed that this inquiry will tell the truth of what happened to the Iraqi people and clarify the UKs involvement, through an official Government recognition of facts of the wars, sanctions and invasion of Iraq and for transparency, accountability and reparation to be paid to the Iraqi people by the UK Government who participated in these illegal and immoral genocidal wars. The story of what was done to the Iraqi people by UK and Western allies is shocking and deeply disturbing. The two wars, the imposition of economic sanctions, causing the slow deaths of thousands of people,…
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14May 2015 by clive

WHY ARE WE PLANNING TO WALK ACROSS THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ) THAT SEPARATES NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA?

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On May 24, 2015, which is International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, 30 women peacemakers from 12 countries plan to walk across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea. This will be an important first step in establishing a peace process and supporting Koreans who are working towards reconciliation and hoping to reunite their families.   Some of the women who will be participating in this historic walk are Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, feminist author Gloria Steinem, retired U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, Suzuyo Takazato from Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence, and American filmmaker Abigail Disney.   Last week, the government of North Korea agreed to support the walk, but officials from South Korea have yet to voice a decision. The United Nations…
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25Nov 2014 by clive

Speech at National Institute of Research, Athens, Greece

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Presentation by Mairead Corrigan Maguire INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY 2l/9/20l4 – PEACE THROUGH DISARMAMENT Dear Friends, It is a great pleasure to be with you all and celebrate International Peace Day.  I would like to thank Panos Trigazis, President of PADOP (Observatory of International organization and Globalization), and the National Institute of Research, for their kind invitation.   I believe peace is possible and it is the greatest gift a person and a country can have.  To believe peace is possible, to have a passion for peace, to work for peace, is indeed a great purpose in life.  Life is a wonderful gift which we are all given, and no one has a right to take our life.   In the words of the Nobel Peace Laureates Charter for a World without…
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25Nov 2014 by clive

Keynote address by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, at Sarajevo Peace Event Sarajevo.

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(6th June, 2014)   PEACE MOVEMENT’S COMMON VISION – THE ABOLITION OF MILITARISM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear friends,   We are all aware that this is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of  Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo which led to the start of the First World War in l9l4. What started here in Sarajevo was a century of two global wars, a Cold War, a century of immense, rapid explosion of death and destruction technology, all extremely costly, and extremely risky.   A huge step in the history of war, but also a decisive turning point in the history of peace.  The peace movement has never been as strong politically as in the last three decades before the break-out of WWl.  It was a factor in political life, literature, organization, and planning,…
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25Nov 2014 by clive

PRESENTATION BY MAIREAD MAGUIRE AT THE FONDAZIONE PATRIZIO PAOLETTI AND COMMUNE OF ASSISI

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23RD NOVEMBER, 2014 PEACE AND A WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE, MILITARISM AND WAR IS POSSIBLE Dear Friends, I would like to thank the Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and the Commune of Assisi for their kind invitation to be with you all. It is a particular joy for my husband Jackie and myself, to be here in Assisi in the home of St. Francis and St. Clare, two great spirits, whose lives have inspired us, and millions of people around the world.    St. Francis, a man of peace, and St. Clare, a woman of prayer, whose message of Love, compassion, care  for humans, animals, and  the environment, comes down through history to speak to us in a very relevant and inspirational way. As we the human family today in the 2lst century, face…
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